Signal Bot Framework

[filipre]

Hey!

I created a small Python framework on top of the REST API that makes it more convenient to write new bot commands for Signal. You can check it out here: https://github.com/filipre/signalbot. It allows you to react on messages and also to schedule tasks to send messages automatically.

Internally, it uses the JSON-RPC Beta version which runs very fast on a Raspberry Pi 4. The REST API made it quite convenient to receive and send messages. Again, great job for writing the wrapper!

Here is an example conversation using the bot:

Maybe it helps someone who is also developing Signal bots.

BTW, I'd love to try out the reaction branch (52b8cdf) since it seems to be implemented already? It would reduce a bit of clutter during some of my commands.

[bbernhard]

Very nice - thanks for sharing!

I actually wanted to add a similar functionality a while ago, but never found the time to do it. The idea was to create a generic hooking mechanism that allows to run pre/post command hooking scripts. That would have allowed users to write lua/python/javascript scripts that will be execute before/after a command runs.

But as I've never found the time to start working on that, I am glad to see your project step up.

In case you want your project mentioned in the README, feel free to create a PR.

regarding the reaction branch: Unfortunately, the changes in the branch do not work apply anymore on the jsonrpc branch. But I'll have a look in the next days to make it work again.